Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began innocently enough. In an attempt to eliminate abuses of personal files in grade schools - such as the note citing "homosexual tendencies" that was allegedly inserted in the files of one nine-year-old after he hugged a classmate - Congress passed a law last month allowing parents and students over 18 to examine school records. The so-called Buckley Amendment on student rights was named for the bill's sponsor, Conservative Senator James Buckley of New York...
Samkange wasn't pleased at what the commission had done in his supposed absence, for it had decided to recommend that a statement challenging the fairness of a grade he gave to a Radcliffe student last spring be placed in her file...
...later in the same year he went to jail. His self-possession never failed him; he wore his Porcellian chain prominently at his trial. In the last weeks before his indictment, Whitney asked hundreds of people for loans--usually requesting "a hundred" meaning $100,000--even from lower-grade Stock Exchange employees who had nowhere near that kind of money to lend...
...played many parts in his long life, but the image he most preferred to project was that of a simple down-home country boy with a fifth-grade education. Yet when Oil Titan H.L. (for Haroldson Lafayette) Hunt died of an undisclosed illness hi a Dallas hospital last week at the age of 85, he had amassed an estimated personal fortune of $2 billion, putting him on a par with J. Paul Getty and Howard Hughes as one of the world's richest men. The exact extent of his wealth is unknown because Hunt never invested hi anything that...
...diabetes; in Hollywood. One of the "singing Lane sisters" who broke into movies with Bandleader Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, Rosemary starred in the 1937 musical Varsity Show, appeared with Rudy Vallee in Gold Diggers in Paris, and Time Out for Rhythm. She also played in such popular B-grade films as She Couldn't Say No and Always a Bride...